Baby steps – or not so babyish…
October 5, 2009
So just in the last month or so, Henry has started using more Spanish with me (he turned three in June). It started with him starting to answer yes/no questions with ‘sí’ or ‘no’, and then saying ‘mira’ when he wanted me to look at something and ‘ven aquí’ when he wanted me to come. He’ll also say ‘Te quiero mucho’ (I love you a lot) when prompted – and that fills my heart.
But yesterday, I went into his room when he woke up from his nap, and he picked up his little stuffed blue dog and said, ‘El perro está azul’. Now granted, he used the wrong form of the verb ‘to be’ (estar instead of ser – a common mistake), but I was amazed that he could say it – and that he did! For a while, when I’d pick him up from school (bilingual daycare with a Columbian family), he would use a silly voice for Spanish, but that’s definitely changing.
Very exciting stuff. And that’s all for today.
